The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... gentle , fair and gay , And trusts the faithless April of thy May . COWLEY . Upon a paper written with the juice of lemon , and read by the fire : Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial heat warms thee within , A new - born ...
... gentle , fair and gay , And trusts the faithless April of thy May . COWLEY . Upon a paper written with the juice of lemon , and read by the fire : Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial heat warms thee within , A new - born ...
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... Gently , ah gently , madam , touch The wound , which you yourself have made ; That pain must needs be very much , Which makes me of your hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . The world and a ...
... Gently , ah gently , madam , touch The wound , which you yourself have made ; That pain must needs be very much , Which makes me of your hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . The world and a ...
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... gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find the poet conclude with lines like these ! But stop , my muse- Hold thy Pindaric Pegasus closely in , Which does to rage ...
... gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find the poet conclude with lines like these ! But stop , my muse- Hold thy Pindaric Pegasus closely in , Which does to rage ...
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... gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shewn ; For , though I have too much ...
... gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shewn ; For , though I have too much ...
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... gentle guests , he cries , since now you're in , The story of your gallant friend begin . In a simile descriptive of the Morning : As glimmering stars just at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at last drop all away . The ...
... gentle guests , he cries , since now you're in , The story of your gallant friend begin . In a simile descriptive of the Morning : As glimmering stars just at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at last drop all away . The ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æneid Anacreon beauteous beauty birds play blessings blest breast bright CATULLUS colours Cowley Cowley's curse Davideis death delight didst divine Donne dost thou doth drink e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame ganon gentle glory gold Gondibert grow hand happy hast heart heaven honour images Ismenus join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour land land arts learned Lesbos less light live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble numbers o'er once Orinda Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry praise Prince rage reign rich sacred sad cypress Sappho shew shine sing soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse virtue Whilst WILLIAM DAVENANT wind wine wise wonders write
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Página ii - ... relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and, perhaps, sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is com.monly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página lii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together...
Página 61 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries (Numberless, nameless, mysteries...
Página 28 - Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How.
Página 166 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...
Página lxxxix - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página lxxx - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red; An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Página 81 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.